Beaufort Memorial Hospital has received a top five-star rating for the quality of its Orthopedic care and an excellence award for Spine Surgery by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings company. The Spine Surgery excellence award represents patient outcomes that rank the hospital among the top 10 percent in the nation. Beaufort Memorial Hospital is also rated best in the Charleston area* and #3 in the state of South Carolina for Overall Orthopedic care. In the Orthopedic service line, the hospital received five-star ratings for Total Knee Replacement, Back and Neck surgery and Spinal Fusion surgery. In addition, Beaufort Memorial Hospital is five-star rated for the treatment of COPD for the fifth year in a row and five-star rated for Gastrointestinal surgeries and procedures, ranking them among the top 5 in South Carolina for overall GI care.
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2009 HealthGrades Awards

Orthopedics

Ranked Best in the Charleston Area for Overall Orthopedic Services

Ranked Best in the Charleston Area for Joint Replacement Surgery

Ranked Among the Top 5 (#3) in SC for Overall Orthopedic Services

Ranked Among the Top 5 (#3) in SC for Joint Replacement

Ranked Among the Top 5 (#5) in SC for Spine Surgery

Recipient of the HealthGrades Spine Surgery Excellence Award™, 2 years in a row

Ranked Among the Top 10% in the Nation for Spine Surgery – 2 years in a row

Five-Star Rated for Overall Orthopedic Services, 2 years in a row

Five-Star Rated for Joint Replacement Five-Star Rated for Spine Surgery

Five-Star Rated for Total Knee Replacement, 3 years in a row

Five-Star Rated for Back and Neck Surgery, 2 years in a row

Five-Star Rated for Spinal Fusion, 2 years in a row

Pulmonary

Five-Star Rated for Treatment of COPD, 5 years in a row

GI Surgery

Ranked among the Top 5 (#5) in SC for Overall GI Care

Ranked among the Top 5 (#5) in SC for GI Surgery

Five Star Rated for GI Surgeries and Procedures

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Our numbers tell the story.
Quality and patient safety are at the core of everything we do at Beaufort Memorial.  Each quarter we monitor what we call our Core Measures to ensure that we are delivering the highest quality care to our patients and keeping them safe.  Some of these Core Measures are also reported on other websites, although the data is usually not as current as ours.
>> View BMH data on Core Measures

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posts comparative quality data on hospitals nationwide. However, that data is not as current as the data we post on our site.  For comparative information on AMI, heart failure and pneumonia,
>> View CMS data at www.hospitalcompare.hss.gov

The South Carolina Hospital Association also has developed a website for healthcare consumers and professionals.  It is called MySCHospital.org. The site contains data on how S.C. hospitals are performing in key areas of patient safety, quality and service.  All hospitals in S.C. participate in submitting data to this site, which is reader-friendly.
>> View SCHA data at www.MySCHospital.org

South Carolina's Department of Health & Environmental Control (DHEC) just recently began posting data on Infection Rates in SC Hospitals.  However, at this time, the data has not been verified.  
>> View SCHHE report at www.scdhec.gov